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Properties that can be confiscated include real estate property such as a house or motel, cars, cash, jewelry, boats, and almost anything [15] suspected of being related to the manufacture and sale and transportation of illegal controlled substances, such as: controlled substances [22] raw materials needed to make them [22] containers to hold ...
A judge has ruled that a Georgia railroad can buy land against the will of property owners to build a track, rebuffing a challenge that a libertarian group hoped could make it harder to use ...
Asset forfeiture or asset seizure is a form of confiscation of assets by the authorities.In the United States, it is a type of criminal-justice financial obligation.It typically applies to the alleged proceeds or instruments of crime.
Distraint is the act or process "whereby a person (the distrainor), traditionally even without prior court approval, seizes the personal property of another located upon the distrainor's land in satisfaction of a claim, as a pledge for performance of a duty, or in reparation of an injury."
The Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to the length of a seizure, a federal court ruled last week, significantly restricting how long law enforcement ...
Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103 (2006), is a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that without a search warrant, police had no constitutional right to search a house where one resident consents to the search while another resident objects.
Warrantless searches are searches and seizures conducted without court-issued search warrants.. In the United States, warrantless searches are restricted under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, which states, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not ...
Historical marker at the site of the Georgia Capitol at the time. The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor George Mathews [1] and the Georgia General Assembly.